There are few challenges in K-12 education quite as problematic as formative assessment. This process, through which teachers evaluate how well their students are learning while they are teaching them ...

Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Introduction; Physical Science and Unifying Themes Assessment Probes Concept Matrix; 1: Sugar Water; 2: Iron ...

Like many other concerned teachers, I’ve been reading the Obama administration’s blueprint for how educational reforms should unfold. Most of the ideas revolve around using a national curriculum that ...

Teachers usually can’t use standardized tests to accelerate students’ learning. The tests are often too general and the results too slow in coming to help teachers make daily instructional decisions.

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

The accelerated digitization of today’s classroom impacts every aspect of instruction–from attendance to summative assessment and everything in between. As educators have shifted to the hybrid ...

G. K. Suraishkumar looks at ways to assess students’ learning more effectively through formative assessments and argues for basing grades entirely on this method There are countless ways to assess ...

It is widely accepted that student learning is significantly affected by assessment methods, but a concrete relationship has not been established in the context of multidisciplinary engineering ...

6 Boiling Time and Temperature7 Freezing Ice; 8 What's in the Bubbles?; 9 Chemical Bonds; 10 Ice-Cold Lemonade; 11 Mixing Water; Life Science Assessment Probes; Concept Matrix; 12 Is It a Plant?; 13 ...